Connector device for a group of insulated conductors

Abstract

A connector for a group of insulated conductors is disclosed comprising flat contact plates (14) for contacting the conductors (7) and suitable for plugging into slots (15) in the connector's casing (1), each plate provided with three contact teeth (16) which are offset laterally with regard to each other by bevelling (30) and joined together into one piece with contact strips (21) which provide contact surfaces in a plastic component for an electric plug. Narrow intermediate strips (20), provided between the contact plates and the contact strips, create heels, by means of which the contact plates rest on the plastic component. Transitional sections (25) between the contact strips and the intermediate strips create additional heels, supported within the plastic component, whereby the bent intermediate strips--carried freely through chambers--mechanically uncouple the contact plates from the contact strips.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A connector for a group of insulated conductors, comprised of a casing of insulating material, said casing having an entrance for a cable enclosing the conductors and including a plurality of side-by-side tubular channels, each channel for receiving one of the corresponding conductors; said casing having a series of parallel slots, each slot aligned and assigned to one of said tubular channels, connecting one outer side of the casing and the channels; said casing also including contact plates adapted to be plugged from outside said casing, through the slots, until they contact the conductors inserted into their respective tubular channels; said plates each arranged in parallel to one of said channels; said contact plates having hooks at its edges running at right angles to the tubular channels to anchor the plates to the casing;   each contact plate having three contact teeth distributed along an edge of said plate at a channel-side of said plate whose tips are offset laterally with regard to each other by bevelling said tips such; said contact plates resting on a plastic component by means of heels between the contact plates and intermediate strips, which intermediate strips follow a curved path through a chamber of said plastic component; said plastic component fitting into said casing on its slotted side; tongue-shaped contact strips plugged into said component from the side adjoining the casing; said contact strips lying in an plane parallel to the contact plates and being joined with the contact plates into a one piece manner by means of an intermediate strip, of less width than the contact plates and the contact strips.   
     
     
       2. A connector according to claim 1 wherein the heels of the contact plates facing the plastic component, and the supporting surface of the plastic component facing the heels, are dimensioned so as to allow a penetration of the contact plates into the mass of the plastic component. 
     
     
       3. A connector according to claim 1 wherein a transitional section wider than the contact strip is provided between each contact strip and each intermediate strip creating heels by means of which the transitional section rests on the plastic component. 
     
     
       4. A connector according to claim 1 wherein said casing presents a window-type opening at its end, and at least on one side of the tubular channels, opposite to the cable entrance opening, permitting a passageway to the outside of the casing perpendicular to the tubular channels.